It was awful. She actually threw up on stomach acid me on the way home. She wouldn't eat or drink anything. She wouldn't even move. I could feel every single bone in her body. I wanted to take every single dog home, but I couldn't. We told our vet about the shelter and the doctor commented that yes, it was an awful shelter, but they actually had some funding come through so they could build that shelter they displayed on the website and could take better care of the animals.

When people get so pissed off if you say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" at a store. I never got why people get so upset over it. At my then job, my manager asked us to say that instead because we had a multi-cultural clientele. I said "Happy Holidays" to an old man after he bought his wife her favorite perfume as a present. He got literally 2 inches from my face and snarled "Merry. Christmas." and stormed off.

The offended look he gave me, you'd have thought I said "your mother sold her self for money to buy you Christmas presents".

I was about 2 years old. I remember sitting in the crib with my baby sister and just watching her move. I refused to call her by name. I just kept saying "baby" and pointed at my sister to my mother who was filming us.

My cat was meowing and going crazy when I walked by her cage. I asked the care taker if I could pick her up. He unlocked the cage and she climbed right onto my shoulder and just sat there, purring. I took her home the following day. She doesn't do that anymore. She's a tricky little bitch.

My golden retriever we found on petfinder.com. My boyfriend loves the breed and since he agreed to let me keep a cat in the house, he got to choose our dog's breed. The pictures showed she would be at a really nice looking, clean animal shelter. When we got there however, it was a tiny trailer with dogs left outside in chain link fences in the middle of a freezing (it was only 24 degrees out) January. When the shelter keepers showed us our dog, she looked way different than she did in the picture. She wasn't a plump, butterball puppy but a sickly little creature. My boyfriend was furious with the way she looked and we immediately took her home to discover she had parvo. 2 weeks of vaccinations and vet care, she is my healthy little derp of 3 years!

As a child and my family drove through Death Valley, I used to wonder if anything was really out there beyond the horizon. Maybe it was like a video game, that if I ran far enough I would hit an invisible wall.

I've put down two pets in my life. My burmese cat when I was a freshman in college, and my toy poodle with I was a junior in college. I was devastated at both. My cat was a purebred (we didn't know until after we got her) and apparently it's common for purebreds to some blood disease that can cut their lifespan in half. My toy poodle lived a long life, which is impressive considering the crazy snacks we used to give her. She was old and it was getting to be her time. So we put her down two days after Christmas. I miss them both terribly.

Cherish the time you have left with her. I am sure she cherishes every second with you.

Make a snack, grab a coke, and watch a favorite episode of a TV show I liked as a kid. If my dogs feel like hanging out, I'll make them a special snack too just to see their tails wag in anticipation. Makes me smile.